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arxiv: 2606.01945 · v1 · pith:SHMLKVVL · submitted 2026-06-01 · cs.CV

Beyond Low-Rank: Low-Rank Sparse Prompting via Spiking Neural Network and Prompt Factorization

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keywords visual promptingspiking neural networkslow-rank factorizationsparse promptsmodel adaptationcomputer visionefficient fine-tuning
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The pith

Combining low-rank factorization with spiking neural networks generates instance-specific sparse visual prompts for more compact model adaptation.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper aims to establish that visual prompts can be made sparse and instance-specific by processing low-rank prompt factors through spiking neurons that fire only when thresholds are met. This approach maintains the benefits of low-rank structure while adding sparsity from the discrete spike trains produced by the integrate-and-fire mechanism. A reader would care because current visual prompting often uses dense prompts that add redundant changes and require many parameters to learn. If the method works, it would allow pre-trained vision models to adapt to new tasks using fewer adjustable parameters and with better generalization across different benchmarks.

Core claim

LoRSP constructs prompt factors via low-rank factorization and feeds them into an SNN that performs integrate-and-fire to emit spikes, thereby generating a sparse visual prompt while keeping the low-rank constraint. This enables instance-specific selective prompting that leads to more compact and robust adaptation across diverse downstream tasks, as shown in experiments on five vision backbones.

What carries the argument

The spiking neural network's integrate-and-fire dynamics applied to low-rank prompt factors, which converts continuous inputs into discrete sparse spike trains for prompt generation.

If this is right

  • LoRSP achieves competitive performance on multiple benchmarks while using fewer tunable parameters than existing visual prompting methods.
  • The sparse prompts are instance-specific due to the selective firing of spiking neurons.
  • Adaptation becomes more compact and robust across heterogeneous vision backbones and tasks.
  • The low-rank constraint is preserved even as sparsity is introduced.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the sparsity improves generalization, similar spiking mechanisms could be tested on language model prompting to reduce parameter counts.
  • The energy efficiency from sparse spikes might make this suitable for edge device adaptations, though not tested in the paper.
  • Further work could examine whether the low-rank factors capture all necessary prompt subspaces or if higher ranks are sometimes needed.

Load-bearing premise

The integrate-and-fire process in the spiking neural network will reliably turn low-rank prompt factors into sparsity patterns that reduce tunable parameters and improve generalization over dense low-rank prompts.

What would settle it

If experiments on the same benchmarks and backbones show that LoRSP uses equal or more parameters or achieves lower accuracy than standard low-rank visual prompting methods, the advantage of the spiking sparsity would be called into question.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.01945 by Beibei Wang, Bo Jiang, Jin Tang, Xiao Wang, Xixi Wan, Yumiao Zhao.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of various Visual Prompting (VP) paradigms. (Left) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The overall framework of the proposed Low-Rank visual Spike Prompting (LoRSP). LoRSP first applies low-rank factorizations to generate group￾wise prompt factors. These factors are then fed into the SNN module to generate pixel-level sparse prompts for each instance. Spiking-PointNet [43] adopts SNNs for 3D point cloud pro￾cessing, leveraging the inherent sparsity of spiking neurons to significantly allevia… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Effects of the Vth and β in LoRSP on two backbones (ViT-B/16 and Swin-B). factors on both backbones. Increasing the number of prompt factors ( k > 4) or the rank (r > 4) leads to a slight drop in performance. These results indicate that a larger rank or a greater number of prompt factors can introduce redundant prompt components, while small k or r limit the capacity to capture instance-specific cues. Ther… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Impact of the number of prompt factors and rank in LoRSP and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization of learned visual prompts. We compare LoR-VP and our LoRSP by visualizing the input images, the learned visual prompts, and the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Visual Prompting (VP) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for adapting large-scale pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks by incorporating learnable prompts at the input level. However, existing VP methods typically employ dense pixel-level prompts, which often suffer from redundant perturbations, limited generalization and energy inefficiency. To overcome these limitations, we propose to integrate brain-inspired spiking learning into visual prompt learning tasks. As we know that spiking neuron can perform inexpensive information processing by transmitting the input data into discrete spike trains and return sparse outputs. Inspired by this, we propose \textbf{Lo}w-\textbf{R}ank visual \textbf{S}pike \textbf{P}rompting (LoRSP), a novel framework that learns dynamic low-rank sparse visual prompts naturally via a Spiking neuron learning mechanism. The core idea of LoRSP is to exploit the brain-inspired sparse firing mechanism of spiking neurons to generate pixel-level sparse prompt for each instance. To be specific, we first construct a series of prompt factors via low-rank factorization to capture distinct prompt subspaces. These prompt factors are then fed into an SNN architecture, which performs the integrate-and-fire process to emit spikes. As a result, our LoRSP generates a \emph{sparse} visual prompt while maintaining the low-rank constraint. This design enables instance-specific selective prompting, leading to more compact and robust adaptation across diverse downstream tasks. Extensive experiments on five heterogeneous vision backbones and multiple benchmarks demonstrate that LoRSP achieves competitive performance while requiring fewer tunable parameters compared to existing VP methods.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes LoRSP, a visual prompting method that factorizes prompts into low-rank factors, feeds them through an SNN with integrate-and-fire dynamics to induce sparsity, and claims to produce instance-specific sparse prompts that preserve the low-rank constraint, yielding competitive adaptation performance with fewer tunable parameters across vision backbones.

Significance. If the construction truly preserves low-rank structure after the nonlinear SNN step and the resulting sparsity yields measurable gains in generalization or parameter efficiency, the work would offer a principled way to combine low-rank efficiency with brain-inspired sparsity for visual prompting; however, the absence of any supporting derivation, equations, or results makes significance difficult to assess at present.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the method 'generates a sparse visual prompt while maintaining the low-rank constraint' is load-bearing for the title and contribution yet receives no justification; the integrate-and-fire operation is a nonlinear threshold-and-reset map whose output, when used to reconstruct the prompt, has no obvious reason to remain low-rank.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'extensive experiments on five heterogeneous vision backbones and multiple benchmarks demonstrate competitive performance while requiring fewer tunable parameters' is unsupported by any baselines, metrics, tables, error bars, or implementation details, rendering the performance claims unevaluable.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the expansion 'Low-Rank visual Spike Prompting' for LoRSP is inconsistent with the title phrasing 'Low-Rank Sparse Prompting'; standardize the acronym expansion.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments on our submission. We address each major comment point-by-point below and commit to revisions that strengthen the justification and clarity of the claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the method 'generates a sparse visual prompt while maintaining the low-rank constraint' is load-bearing for the title and contribution yet receives no justification; the integrate-and-fire operation is a nonlinear threshold-and-reset map whose output, when used to reconstruct the prompt, has no obvious reason to remain low-rank.

    Authors: We agree the abstract claim requires explicit justification, as the integrate-and-fire map is nonlinear. In the method, low-rank factorization produces the prompt factors first; the SNN then generates instance-specific spike trains that act as a sparse gating mechanism applied to those factors before reconstruction. This structure is intended to keep the effective prompt within the original low-rank subspace. However, the current manuscript does not include a formal derivation or equations demonstrating preservation of the low-rank property after the nonlinearity. We will add a dedicated subsection with the mathematical argument and any necessary assumptions in the revision. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'extensive experiments on five heterogeneous vision backbones and multiple benchmarks demonstrate competitive performance while requiring fewer tunable parameters' is unsupported by any baselines, metrics, tables, error bars, or implementation details, rendering the performance claims unevaluable.

    Authors: The abstract summarizes results presented in the experiments section, which reports comparisons against existing VP methods across the stated backbones and benchmarks, including parameter counts. That said, the referee is correct that the abstract itself provides no supporting numbers or references, making the claims difficult to evaluate from the abstract alone. We will revise the abstract to either tone down the language or include a concise reference to key quantitative outcomes (e.g., average accuracy and parameter reduction) while ensuring the main text already contains the full tables, baselines, and implementation details. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity detected

full rationale

The paper introduces LoRSP as a novel combination of low-rank factorization on prompt factors followed by SNN integrate-and-fire for sparsity. The abstract and description present this as an architectural design choice without equations or claims that reduce the output prompt to a quantity defined by the inputs themselves. No self-citations, fitted predictions, or uniqueness theorems are invoked in a load-bearing way. The method is self-contained as a proposed framework rather than a derivation that collapses by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review provides no equations or implementation sections, so no specific free parameters, axioms, or invented entities can be extracted. The approach references standard low-rank factorization and SNN integrate-and-fire but does not detail any ad-hoc choices or new entities.

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